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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07
GATE CITY DOTS.
"Solidad Laredo"-New Custom
Regulations-Blg Excursion.

LAREDO, July 3, 1897.
To the Editor of The Statesman.
The second annual ball that was given
last night by the "Solidad Laredo" was
one of the grandest that was ever given
in the Gate City. The elite of both La
redoes were present. and the ladies looked
as sweet and as handsome as princesses.
The committee of arrangement did every
thing that was possible to make the ball
a success. Mr.. j. S. Sanders furnished
the refreshments for the occasion.
The new customhouse regulations that
went into effect to day, reduces the duty
on many of the American goods. AS the
reduction has already been published
we will not republish them at this time.
The new law is somewhat defective as it
applies to the frontier ports, and the sec
rotary of the treasury in Mexico has been
telegraphed to for his construction of the
law. Until his opinion is received no
goods will cross over. There is at pres
ent large quantity of goods at this place
awaiting shipment to Mexico.
One of the largest excursions that ever
passed over the Mexican National rail-
way came in from Saltillo this evening, on
their way to Corpus Christi. There were
ten coaches with 473 passengers, and they
took on two more from Laredo. There
were over 500 passengers in all.
The smelling company have commenced
the erection of the smelters, and the work
will be pushed to completion as fast as
men and money can do it.
Notwithstanding we are now in mldsum-
mer, business in the Gate City is remark
ably good. Commerce in this section
does not depend on agriculture. Cattle,
horses, sheep, wool and hides are the prin
cipal products of the country, and there
is always a demand for such products;
hence money is always plentiful. The
present prospect for this section is
brighter than it has been for many years.
DR.. A: E. Spohn, of Corpus Christi,
made flying visit to his ranch at Encinal.
Mr.. Crawford, knight of the grip
sack, from Galveston, is drumming the
two Laredos.
There is at the present time, consider
able travel in this direction. Quite a
number of tourists are going to Monterey
and Topo Chico Hot Springs.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07
TEARING THE BLOODY SHIRT.

Gen. Fairchild wrapped himself in the
ensanguined garment, and assuming a
tragic attitude, like Caesar at the foot
of Pompey's statue, gave forth his
famous palsy imprecation on the head of
the president. The excitable commander
of the Grand Army, no doubt, believed
his utterances would throw the whole
north into fervor of excitement and
hate, and the south, like the president,
into an attack of palsy and an epidemic
of tears and weeping. But Fairchild's
dream of fame, personal aggrandizement
and power has been ended by the reunion
on the great battlefield of Gettysburg Sat
urday night. Here the north and south,
by their representatives, veterans of both
armies, met and clasped hands, and re-
newed the old friendship on the same field
on which, twenty-four years ago, the two
sections met in the guise of two great,
powerful and glorious armies. We can
not doubt the sincerity of the express
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

sions of the blue and the grey at tina
wonderful and impressive scene OF
historic heights, once REDEEMED with the
blood of the decisive battle of one of thu
greatest wars of this, or any other age
Nor Is there any reason whatever for the
suspicion that Col. Aylett, of Virginia
and Col. Mcclure, of Pennsylvania, in
their respective speeches did
not truly represent the feeling
among the masses of the people both
north and south.
~ greet YOU in the name of the great
north" said Col. Mcclure, "inseParably
interviewer with the great south in sym
patty, in interest and in fellowship"
We of the south accept these utterances
as the bona fide sentiment of the great
body of the northern people, not its poll
ticians or its demagogues, and the heart
of the people of the great south" goes
out in warm, generous and sincere re.
spouse. Col Aylett did utter the uni
versal sentiment of the southern people
when he said:
81 utter it as a sentiment that comes
swelling up from every bosom of
Virginia and the south; that the man who
would rekindle again that feeling which
filed our land with death, and tears, and
grief, and mourning, with graves and
with suffering, is not only I'M
worthy of the high title of being an
American citizen, bat even of that of a
human being, and should find no home
or friend on earth or in heaven. There
is not true man at the south to-day but
who feels as if he would to stand at the
tomb of Lincoln and Grant to plant a
flower there, and to water it with a
manly tear. In the presence of feeling
like this - too sacred and deep
for utterance - what matters it
who shall keep the battle hags?"
In truth, the Gettysburg incident has
developed the fact that the people of both
sections have determined that all old ami
nosities shall be forever buried, and that |
he American union, cemented by the
Hood of the civil war, shall be all the
tronger. The Gettysburg reunion is
otice served on the time serving poll
icians, tricksters and creatures like Fair
hid, to stand aside. The bloody shirt has
cen rent and badly torn.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07
INTELLECTUAL TRAINING.

In his address before the State Teach
ers' association, last week, Prof. Bilkler,
without intending to do so, perhaps, de-
livered some profound philosophical as
well as physiological principles.
In one part of the address Prof. Bickler
save:
I'm our plan for intellectual training
the evil lies not in not doing enough, but
rather il doing too much; We practice IN
natural brain forcing. The laws of New
ton and Keppler governing the physical
universe are not more unerring in heir
operation nor more universal in their
application than are the laws of mind as
enunciated by Locke, Pastslozzi and
Froebel. To violate these laws is to sin
against God and man. Pastslozzi, that
greatest and best of modern teachers, lays
down this cardinal law.
In its order and its method education
must conform to the natural process of
mental evolution. Do We obey this law
as we ought to? Do we follow the order
of nature and proceed from the simple to
the complex, from the concrete to the
abstract? Do we not teach many things
rather than much of few things? Do
we not teach for the school more than for
practical life? Do we teach the useful
first and the ornamental last"
The above touches on what is coming
to be regarded as one of the chief faults
of modern educational systems. In our
scholastic progress we have, in fact, been
going too fast, and as Prof. Bickler holds
an opinion shared in by many thinking
people-have infringed upon the immuta-
BILE laws of nature. One of her leading
laws is simplicity. This is not observed
in our schools. In making up their cur
riculums our teachers seem to be aiming
at the complex, instead of the simple, so
adopted to the juvenile mind. Children
under ten years are given seven or eight
different studies at once, and they are
often launched into subjects that would
stagger Proctor or Herbert Spencer. The
infant brain is forced, as Professor
Bickler terms Il, and instead of having
its powers concentrated on few studies
it is confused among multiplicity. In
this way the ends of true education are
often defeated. Physiologically the child
not unfrequently suffers from such vio-
lent stuffing of the tender brain at the ex-
pense of the forces necessary for the
balance of the physical system. Like
everything else in this fast age, we try to
rush our children through an education,
to find in the end that we have made
nothing, but lost by becoming smarter
than nature and trampling on her laws,
whose penalties are carried out with I'M
erring certainty. "Do we follow the or
der of nature in our educational methods"
is Prof. Bickler's inquiry. 1t should re-
ceive the careful attention of every educa-
tor, every parent in Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

A countryman who was visiting friends
in Paris was so delighted with the sights
the gay city afforded that he did not ap-
pear to want to leave in hurry. When
his hosts thought he had stayed long
enough they gave him a broad hint by
saying: won't your wife and children
miss your" "Mon Dieu, oui!" said he:
81 mnst write them to come."-Figaro.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

A Jersey Dodge: Spokesman-'No OBJ
iections, hope" Farmer-No, I hain't
got no objections ter yer picking Their
berries, but, by gosh, the house is so full
l dunno where ter put yer all when yer git
bit by Their rattlesnakes." They move
on.l-Tid Bits.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she WAS Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to CastOria,
When abe had Children, she gave them Castoria,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

EVEN Mr.. Blaine, on the other side of
the water, seems to have caught the infec-
ton of good feeling, which he never felt
or exhibited on this side. In his speech at
the Fourth" celebration, in London, the
plumed knight was moved to say "there
is no republican, no democrat to-day;
all are Americans" The distinguished
speaker will doubtless change his tune by
the opening of the campaign next year.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

The murder of the GerRan, Metskin,
by the rich South Carolina mill owner,
George S. Turner, reported in the dis
patch from Columbia, is one of the most
cold blooded, unprovoked, infamous as
sassinations of the time. Turner, in his
fight, has doubtless headed for Texas.
The authorities should look out for him.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-07

READ the speech of Senator Cullom, this
morning, and see if he hasn't made a
most remarkable utterance for a repub-
lican concerning taxation.
The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-16
The Lime Kiln Club's Rules.

The following new rules and regula-
tions will go into effect next week:
|. All dogs brought into the hall must
enter at the peril Of their lives.
=. Members must not discuss presi-
'lential candidates anywhere with, half
a mile OF Paradise hall
3. 1t wiz not be considered in good taste
for any member to remove his shoes dur
inG the meeting Of the club,
4. Except ii rare instances, no member
shall be given over seven minutes time
tor SpcakinG
>. AS many members are dilatory in
showing up Il, the weekly meetings, the
doors hereafter viii I've locked at ten min
ntes after the opening hour, and even
Elder Toots, il persisting upon an entrance
after that time, will feel something hit
him.
6. Religious debates in the ante-rooms
and discussions Us to the age Of Noah in
the library must and shall bc stopped.
Z. Members lnnso sec to it in paying
their dues that all lead nicke!s arc saved
out to pay street car fare and buy cigars
$. Any member who is two months in
arrears for dues may be looked upon as d
suspicious character and treated accord.
ingly.
8. The e>iict banishing raw onions iron.
the hall during sessions is hereby revoked.
1t has lately been discovered that they
ward off the hootio, yellow fever, lame
back and several her diseases.
10. \ member who votes yes or ~ Oh !,
resolution cannot change his vote with.
out satisfactory explanation and the
consent OF the chair. He will be granted
three minutes in which to explain Why he
backs water.-Dc1roi; Free Press.
The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-16

The Ginger Vice,

rev peopAc are aware of the effect RI !,
pecu''ar Bind of dissipation known 10
slhsef drinking. The article used is tho
essence or ginger, such as is mt ,n in tho
se'sfal proprietary preparations known
" .l.e tr;ste, or the alcoholic extract ordi-
narliy so'a over the druggists counter
having once acquired a liking for it. tho
,1I:lni necoMes us much u slave to his an-
pe'lte as the opium eater or the vo,ary Of
cocaine. In its effect it is much The most
injurious OF all such practices, for in the
course OF tlEle 1t destroys the couti,u of the
oto1iiNh ana droms its victim to u slow
anu aeonizlns death. The druggist who
eo4o me ABOUT the thing says that as gin
sel essence contains about 100 per cent.
Alconol, and whisky less than 80 per cent.
: :"o Aotlhef IS therefore twice as intoxicat-
ing Lii tact, this is the reason why If is
used by hardened old toner's who's. ston.
ac!is are no longer capn',lc of Intoxicating
stimulation iron, whisky. They need 1hc
more powerful agency of the p,lrc alcohol
in the ginger extract.
lie told me lie had two regular ems
toners, Il woman, who had contracted 1hc
h;.olt through employing the ginger o,.
several occasions for sto,nuch;c pains.
me relief it afforded her WIS SO grateful
= aJ s1e took to it upon any recurrence of
ncr trouble. She found, too, that the
Slight eXllilaration of the alcohol banishcd
mental depression. In this way she cot
TO using it regularly, and finally to such
excess 'nat she was often grossly intoxi-
Gated. Large doses produce a quiet
stupor: additional doses produce ~ pro.
found lctharyic slumber, which lasts in
some cases for twenty-four hours Ills
other customer was u peddler, who cune at
q certain hour every morning, bought u
tour ounce bottle, aud drank it's contents
ny noon. The man craved the stuff SO
ardcntly y that he was unable to 90 about
his business until he had set the machinery
OF his stomach in operation, and started
ne circulation OF the blood by means OF
'le fiery dranght. He says That the habit
is we'll known to ths, drug trade. Brook
!yn Citizen.
The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-16
Conventional s'oi.:;. s's.s -.

it is com rai,,lively easy :. forgive an
oifense. but mos; people, Htt": 't''in; that:
conscicntiouSiy refrain truln forgetting it.
'I am sure forgive her, ~ ! Wisl, 10 De
1uryiyen:' said /, woman who had Tio-
lcntly q,,arrelc,l with Il relative. =: lay
up nothing against lcr. She's t'eated me
like q dog, and il Id lad any spirit, l
should have resented il before wouldn't
trust her as far rs l could re her. and rs
for speaking to her, 1 Vn'llln,t lower my
self to that, But siol'l fc!ievc il treas
ur;ng up wrath. and 50 I've forgiven her
for all the wickedncss she's tried to COM
pass against ne. She didn't succeed in
it. and she n, yer will succeed. for Ill keep
my eye on her. and outwiu her at every
turn. And If it ever comes i'll my way to
do her Il favor. she may whistle for it,
Youths Companion.
The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-16
brunNchhrss, ,Orthe Lisunr Hnbii Positive
'EC'rc'! by Administering DR.. Hain.s'
Golden specific.

II can be given it. 4 cup oi coffee OF tea
without the knowledge Of the person tax
ing it; is absolutely harmless ana will ci
iett (. permanent and speedy cure, vi,c,h-
er the paticn, is Il moderate ,irit.lcr or
an alcoho'ic wreck. Thousands of drunk
ards have been made temperate nn,n nh.
have taken Golden Specific in their coffee
without their knowledge, and to-day be-
Iievc they quit drinking Of their own free
will II NEVER FAILS The system
once inpregnated with the Specific It be-
comes an utter impossibility FOR the liquor
appetite to exist. For full particulars, .,l
GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co, lSs Race St, Gin.
cinnati, Ohio
The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-16
\ Nn,nnn'S Disco, cry.

",\uoti1,r wrndcr!ui t;i>:'"v1rv ia~ been
Disease fastened. it, ,',u,u!t~ s.por her and
:or seven years si> witi',.unl its >cvercst
tess, hut hsr vital organs wtt" undermined
aud death seemed imminent. For three
months she coushei :!cc, sanity and could
;aut sleep. she housh. "i rs 4 bottle Of
nr. Kings New Discovery for tonsunp-
tiou aud was 50 much relieved on takingth
frs dose tha: she slept all night and with
one bottle has been miracuouslv cured.
Her name is Mrs. Luther I,'tz.' Thus
write W. G. Hamrick 4 Co, OF Shelby, \.
C.-Get tree trial bottle at \. NJ.
WHITES City Drug Store.
The Dillon tribune., 1887-12-16
Wales at IL Watering Place.

The prince. though stolt and what /
call a little beery, though the g,iris
wo'llIn't say 50 fcr Tie Wurldl, is !, very
quick. nervous man, who does everything
q, quickly ;'~ Il ca, can move. He talks
in quick, jcrhy ~2l,'vilces and moves like q
flash. He walked tNic" rs fast as any
man in Ilon:brr& W hcn he was taking his
exercise along With his Ha,crs. Well. he
turned up every mninin-sa at :, anu there
were all t,'r girls. lie ;,,oS his glass Of
water aud began To i:y around the walks
in the park, nn'!dinss nnW to one friend
ant! now to another. N>'i had better be-
licv, that HE girls were all there, red eyed
and s:has,ly, because % getting mp so
early. But they had to take their chances,
;,ccnu~e no one is allowed to speak TO the
p4i.lct until he speaks first He had
about seven or cyh; men and women in
his party. and he would fly around with
them more than half the time. But sud-
denly. every now and then, he would hat
in front of Il Yankee miss and ~G>-. Don
You want to walk i lite: He then
would start off with her for . turn Or Two,
and thea drop her and take ''i' some one
else --~T"1srist in Phi!'rlc''tih Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05

manity up to the top of high mountain
and shows his railroads and his kerosene
oil and his distilleries and his Golfers
filled with pure leaf lard, and says: "All
this will give for a seat in the senate"
q common millionaire with no originality
osity on Broadway than a young man
who is led about by little ecru dog.
l do not wish to crush capital with
labor, or to further intensity the feeling
which already exists between the two,
for am land holder and taxpayer my
self but say that the man who never
mixes up with the common people. un-
less he is summoned to explain some
thing and shake the moths out of his
memory, will some day, when the grass
grows green over his own grave. md
himself confronted by the same kind OF
a memoay on the part of mankind.
l do not say all this because was
treated in an offhand manner by Mr..
Gould, but because think it ought to be
said.
As said before Jay Gould is consider.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05
lMPlEIlES.

"Mamma, did God make Mr.. Jones? "Why,
yes, dear, OF course he did," her mother an
swered. surprised. There was a long silence,
which the little lady devoted to much deep
thought; then with troubled sigh,
Mamma, DO you suppose God thought he
was pretty?'
"What is promised to the righteous?" asked
mild and amiable Sunday school teacher Of
q small child at the end of her class. "Eter-
nal bliss. quickly responded the child:
quite right, my dear child" said the mild
and amisble, And nov tel me what is ,;
was the prompt reply
A ROxbury citizen, says the Boston Tran
script has daughter about three years old.
Having accompanied her mother to witness
baptism, the next day she said she was
going to have baptism herself and arrang-
ing her dolls along the edge of the bath tub
she prepared one of them for immersion.
Her mother, hearing the child's voice, ad-
vanced within listening distance and heard
the following address to the candidate: IL
now baptize you in the name of the Father
and the Son, and into the hole You go.'
The little granddaughter of Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore, SAYS the Youths Companion, dis
likes to be made to mind. One Sunday. after
some outbreak. her father got down the bible
and showed her the text: 'Children, obey
your parents" She looked discOntented, but
went on reading the chapter, while her father
went up stairs. Presently she pursued him,
bible In hand, calling eagerly: Papa! papa !!
IL says some more. 1t says, Parents, pro-
woke not your children to wrath, and that Is
what you do to me every dayV
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05
Two Great Can ais.

Chambers journal: Paris and Man
chester have both resolved on ship
canal; it now appears Brussels is deter
mined not to be behindhand, and there.
fore proposal has been made to the
municipality to construct ship canal to
the Scheldt, having 4 depth of six and a
half meters, with quays sufficiently
capacious to allow twenty ships of 2,5OO
tons each to unload or load, and the
whole is to be connected with the great
Belgian line of railway. The scheme is
a bold one, but the company who will
undertake it-if it is carried QUITS an
English one, and the contractors and
workers will, doubtless, be English, too
While on this subject we may mention
that such another scheme is about to be
attempted IN South Russia by the cutting
of a canal across the lsthmus of Perekop,
to connect the Sea of Azoy with the
waters of the Black Sea. BY this plan a
saving Of 100 miles of very rough sailing
will be effected, and more especially the
dangerous passage of kertch, which in
winter is cons.ontly closed by ice. 1t is
supposed that the making Of this canal
will greatly improve the coal and salt
trades of Donetz and Odessa, which alone
in commercial point Of view, is a mat
ter Of the highest importance.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05

beautiful Sabbath morning desires to
jeopardize his immortal soul in order to
be beyond the reach of want, and to ride
gaily over the sunlit billows where the
cruel fangs of the excise law cannot reach
HIM. let him cultivate lop-sided memory,
swap friends for funds, and WISE counsel
for crooked consols.
II I had thought OF all this as came
down the front steps at Irvington the other
day would have said 1t to MIR. Gould but
l did not think of it until got home. A
mans best thoughts frequently come to
him too late for publication.
But the name Of Jay Gould will not 60
down to future generations linked with
those of Howard and Wilberforce. 1t
will not go very far anyway. In this age
of miIlionalres, millionaire more or less
does not count very much, and only the
good mill.onaires who baptize and beau
tify their wealth III the eternal sunlight
Of unseltishnsss will have any claim on
Immortality.
In this period of progress and high
grade civilization, when Satan takes hui.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05

ably below the medium height and am
not gong to take it back.
He is man who will some day SIT out
on the corner of a new planet with hil
little pink railroad maps on his knee, and
ask, "Where am II" and the echoes from
every musty corner OF miasmatic oblivion
will take up the question and refer II to
the judiciary committee; but 1t will curl
up and die like the minority report
against big railroad land grant.
Bill NYE.